Thousands of trained killers are plotting to attack us, ... Employees of this new agency will come to work every morning knowing that their most important job is to protect their fellow citizens. |
To the extent the federal government didn't fully do its job right, I take responsibility. |
to understand the relationship that the federal government's role is to support state and local governments. |
Today we're just Americans, not Republican or Democrat, not Jew or gentile, not rich or poor, not black or white, ... Today we are Americans united by a common commitment to our country. |
Today, America is confronting another disaster that has caused destruction and loss of life. This time the devastation resulted not from the malice of evil men, but from the fury of water and wind, |
Tonight, I ask the Congress to join me in creating a single permanent department with an overriding and urgent mission -- securing the American homeland and protecting the American people, |
Too many Americans have lost a large portion of their retirement funds and they've lost a sense of security in the process, ... I know that. |
Two-bit terrorists aren't going to prevent me from doing what we need to do and that is to promote our friendship in the hemisphere, ... Our neighborhood is important to us. Peru is an important country. You bet I'm going. |
Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people. |
We are not the sum of our possessions. |
We are now learning that before September 11, the suspicions and insights of some of our front-line agents did not get enough attention, |
We can expect they'll do everything in their power to try to stop the march to freedom, |
We cannot allow the world's most dangerous nations to possess the world's most dangerous weapons. |
We concluded an historic agreement today on nuclear power. |
We do not torture |